ALKERDEEL

TWELVE – ULTHA Converging Sins Relatively new to the black metal scene, Ultha do not rest. Starting off with their demo in 2015, they soon unleashed their debut full-length in Pain Cleanses Every Doubt the same year, and followed that with their participation in a split Bathory cover, alongside Morast,

Earlier this year, Alkerdeel released one of my favorite Black Metal records, entitled Lede (if you haven’t heard it, you should, like yesterday) that is out now on Consouling Sounds. They also performed at this year’s Roadburn, and now it’s your time to check it out! I fucking love this band,

It’s 2016, and atmospheric black metal bands are a dime a dozen. Any willing individual has the means to recycle a Cascadian riff, edit an eerie nature photo for a cover, and release their compositions to the world. This is not to say that the scene is bogged down –

I feel like I’m peeling my skin off with shards of black glass dipped in feral wolf’s blood! I feel a sense of morbid immortality and that all of humanity is my prey. To say that the new Alkerdeel song “Regardez ses yeux III” is powerful would be way beyond a

SIX: WOES // WÖLVEFROST You are about to hear a split that will make you want to spit in the face of all authority and gauge out the eyes of corrupt politicians! WOES, from Bradford, England, have joined forces with Seattle’s WÖLVEFROST for a split that is the most ferocious collection

The Abyss Stares Back series from Hypertension Records has given me some of my favorite splits of 2014. Number 4 features ALKERDEEL & NIHILL, and both bands’ songs have ripped a hole in my chest while injecting me with their audio excrement! I’m not going to write a lot, because